1958 Event 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere") 1957 Birthday Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind 1900 Birthday Theodosius Dobzhansky, born in Ukraine, genetist/writer, Mankind Evolving 1862 Event Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis 1824 Death Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 1752 Birthday Herman Muntinghe, Dutch theologist, History of Mankind 1747 Death Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris 1715 Birthday Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives
